Good old Lycos reinvents itself as a VOD player … or tries to
Remember Lycos? Of course you do. Remember when you last used the site? Of course you don’t. Perhaps that’s exactly why the company’s taking the site in a new direction: video on demand (VOD) rentals.
Started as a Carnegie Mellon University research project in 1994, Lycos was one of the first web search engines. By 1999 it was one of the most visited sites in the world, then Yahoo and Google happened. While it still maintains… Continue Reading
Roundup: Visible Measures, Searchles, suits, Jubii, Obama, Kleiner, more
The latest action:
Grouper sends “cease & desist” letter to Searchles, but it may backfire — Grouper, the online video sharing site now owned by Sony, sends a C&D letter to Searchles to demand it stop taking Grouper videos and placing them in Searchles’ own player skin. Grouper says the practice removes things like copyright protection technology, as well as buttons such as “flag as inappropriate.” The controversy is recorded at Searchles’ blog, which, incidentally, provides a… Continue Reading
Lycos’ social software project, Jubii, loses us
Lycos, the Europe-based portal, just unveiled an effort to bring together its social software technologies — integrating chat, test messaging, file-sharing, storage, mobile communications — into one offering.
It is called Jubii. Eager to try it out, we started the registration process, but were hit with a statement saying it would contact us with “advertisements for products and services of Jubii LLC and/or third parties.” No opt-out. In other words, it lost us. We’ll probably… Continue Reading